Trump raises $ 4 billion in US financing for the California High Speed Rail Project | At $ | Trump Administration

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the transport department imposed $ 4 billion for the financing of the US government for the Californian high-speed rail project.

The department said there was no sustainable way for the high-speed rail project of California and is considering possibly suppressing additional funds in connection with the project.

The Federal Railroad Administration created a 315-page report last month, in which it quoted deadlines, household failures and questionable driver projections.

An important problem cited is that California had not identified any additional funds of $ 7 billion that were required for the construction of a first 171-mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield, California.

The California High Speed Rail System is a planned two-phase 800-mile system (1.287 km) at a speed of up to 220 miles per hour that aims to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaheim, and extends north to Sacramento and San Diego in the second phase.

The California high -speed railway authority previously said that they are “misjudged and do not reflect the significant progress for the provision of high -speed rails in California”.

It was found that the budget proposal of California Governor Gavin Newsom prior to the expansion of the financing of at least 1 billion per year for the next 20 years “the necessary resources to complete the initial operating segment of the project” extends.

The authority determined in May there is an active civil engineering construction along 119 miles in the central of the state.

Transport secretary Sean Duffy said: “Newsom and California's high -speed railway Boondoggle are the definition of state incompetence and possibly corruption.”

Newsom replied on social media: “The guy who cannot keep aircraft in the sky is not advised.”

In 2008, the voters approved $ 10 billion for the project, but the costs have increased significantly. The transport department under the former President Joe Biden awarded the project around $ 4 billion.

The entire San Francisco-to-Los Angeles project should initially be completed by 2020 for USD 33 billion, but has now increased from $ 89 billion to USD $ 128 billion.

In 2021, Biden restored a scholarship of $ 929 million for the high -speed rail in California, which Trump had revoked in 2019 after the Republican President described the project as a “disaster”.